CURA. #37 2021

In a constant alternation between destruction and creation, nihilism and propulsion, participation and absence, specificity and massification, contemporary artistic language reinterprets the capitulation of all models and the definition of new scenarios of a history constantly aimed at overcoming its paradoxes and the assumptions that generated it. “The meteor that killed the dinosaurs sent up a tsunami of mud and fishes from Mexico to South Dakota like in American movies where a tornado picks up a cow and carries it across the screen. That is what they wanted it to be like: their own personal catastrophe made total, with an audience in a dark room watching and feeling for them. They wanted time to go forward and insisted that their beginning was The Beginning and so their end would be The End and all of humanity was them, collective fault arising from a singular start. Cells which clumped together and grew nano-intentionality, a story of blame and stupidity and always, always an apocalypse.” (Ava Tomasula y Garcia)